Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is now on President Trump's legal team, told CBS News correspondent Paula Reid Monday that special counsel Robert Mueller's office has rejected proposals to allow Mr. Trump to answer questions from investigators in writing.

The president's legal team has signaled that this would be their preferred format for a possible interview, since it helps protect Mr. Trump from the possibility of lying or misleading investigators, which is a criminal offense.

Giuliani told CBS News it will take up to three weeks for him to get fully up to speed on the facts of the investigation and be prepared to engage in formal negotiations with the special counsel about the terms of a possible interview with Mr. Trump.

Giuliani told Reid that he and the president's legal team continue to be in communication with the special counsel, but that he wants to have a better sense of the facts before engaging in formal negotiations about a possible interview.

Giuliani said Mr. Trump's team also wants some issues to be off-limits, although he wouldn't elaborate on which ones, and they want a time limit for the interview.

In addition, Giuliani also told Reid he'd want to know whether the interview would become public, and whether they would have the chance to issue a rebuttal to anything alleged by the special counsel.

Stunning that Mueller doesn't think Trump can be trusted to answer the questions on the honor system. He's as honest as the day is long ---- in the arctic, on the winter solstice.

I'm sure they're worried that the interview will become public. After all, that's what the backstabbing Republicans would do. Indeed, they did. They told Clinton that his Grand Jury testimony had to be taped for a juror who was out sick --- and then Starr turned the ape over to the Republicans in congress and they released it to the public.

Giuliani says he needs to prep Trump and it will take time so he wants to wait until after the North Korean Summit because Trump is spending his time being briefed on that.